- Wilkinstown, near, Co. Meath, Meath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Meath Site name: Wilkinstown, near, Co. Meath

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR ME107-051 Licence number:

Author:

Site type: Prehistoric and early Bronze Age graves

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 684003m, N 765239m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.630215, -6.729955

In 1929 the Museum received a report stating that a skeleton and an urn had been discovered twelve years previously in a sandpit near Wilkinstown, Co. Meath.7 No details survive, but according to the report the skeleton was ‘of massive size’. The cist had been closed by the finder in order to protect it from destruction. The site was not investigated by the Museum and the remains were not acquired.

7. The name of the townland is not known. SMR ME107-051——.